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shearing stress — n. a force causing two contacting parts or layers to slide upon each other, in opposite directions parallel to the plane of their contact * * * … Universalium

shearing stress — n. a force causing two contacting parts or layers to slide upon each other, in opposite directions parallel to the plane of their contact … English World dictionary

shearing stress — noun : a stress that results from the shear of an elastic solid and is measured by the force per unit area exerted by adjacent mutually displaced layers upon each other in the plane common to both * * * shearing stress, the stress in a body… … Useful english dictionary

Shearing (physics) — Shearing in continuum mechanics refers to the occurrence of a shear strain, which is a deformation of a material substance in which parallel internal surfaces slide past one another. It is induced by a shear stress in the material. Shear strain… … Wikipedia

Stress (physics) — Stress is a measure of the average amount of force exerted per unit area. It is a measure of the intensity of the total internal forces acting within a body across imaginary internal surfaces, as a reaction to external applied forces and body… … Wikipedia

stress — the intensity of internal force acting at a point in an object. Stress is measured in units of force per area. Examples of a stress include a tension, a thrust, and a shearing force applied stress critical resolved shear stress maximum stress… … Mechanics glossary

shearing test — the test applied to metal to determine the stress required to fracture it across its section … Mechanics glossary

tangential stress — Shear Shear, n. [AS. sceara. See {Shear}, v. t.] 1. A pair of shears; now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See {Shears}. [1913 Webster] On his head came razor none, nor shear. Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Short of the wool … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English